i dunno i just remembering hating hating hating hating it and all the stupid people who liked it. also, the soundtrack.
― latebloomer, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i pretty much loved most of the 90s gen-x films, no matter how crap they were.
― Rubyredd, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:37 (sixteen years ago) link
was clueless a gen-x film or were the characters too young?
― get bent, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:40 (sixteen years ago) link
too young and not at all gen-x anyway! like as if.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:49 (sixteen years ago) link
prescient "gen-y" (ugh) film?
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:58 (sixteen years ago) link
"film"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 January 2008 10:59 (sixteen years ago) link
ehhh... it's just a really good teen movie.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm just thinking the ubiquity of cell phones (a rarer thing among teens in the mid-90s, but all over this flick) and the reliance on constant contact.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:02 (sixteen years ago) link
is that a gen-y thing?
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:11 (sixteen years ago) link
purely antecdotal, but every coworker/extended family member/sibling of mine that's under the age of 19 prefers texting to calling and always has a phone in their hands.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 5 January 2008 11:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Why did I dig up this thread last night? Oh yeah, the Heidegger thread.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Saturday, 5 January 2008 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Defense: this movie remains a glimpse into the alternate reality where Janeane Garofalo has a steady sarcastic-friend gig in romantic comedies, and that would be a good reality.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 5 January 2008 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
was winona ryder in even one good movie after "heathers"?
MR. DEEDS
― J, Saturday, 5 January 2008 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
(alright, I'm joking!)
― J, Saturday, 5 January 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Uncool, but Little Women.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 5 January 2008 17:47 (sixteen years ago) link
You know it occurs to me after reading this thread that there is actually one good scene in this movie--the dialogue-free montage scene where Ryder runs around paying for for other people's fillups on her gas card in exchange for cash. It's about a minute long, I think.
― J, Saturday, 5 January 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
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http://hitparade.ch/cdimg/c_c_music_factory_feat_freedom_williams-things_that_make_you_go_hmmm_s.jpg
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 5 January 2008 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.laweekly.com/2012-01-05/film-tv/reality-bites-sundance-ben-stiller/
― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Also, lol at sean for the movie was like the visual equivalent of Jeff Gomez' Our Noise
― Only the RONG Survive (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
oh man: "ambitious showbiz brat who would end up giving the world banal blockbusters like Zoolander and Tropic Thunder". this is some nplusone^2 level missing-the-point.
― s.clover, Sunday, 12 February 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
which i suppose is n^2 + 2n + 1
Jelle_1979 3 weeks agoSay what you will, Reality Bites had a terrific soundtrack with Lisa Loeb and her breakthru hit 'Stay', Crowded House, U2, The Knack, World Party, Squeeze, The Posies, Dinosaur Jr, Lenny Kravitz and Big Mountain with their version of 'Baby I love your way'.
lol i dont remember the sndtrk but that sounds like torture
― RudolfHitlerFtw (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
That jerk left out the real highlight which was clearly Ethan Hawke doing "Add it Up" or his original effort "I'm Nothing". lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=socgqxp0Uxs&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbO1qC7EsVI
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
loooooool "i'm nothing"
"i aint' no republicrat i ain't no democan i ain't nothin' in between" iirc
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Yep. There was a time when I knew all the words. So shameful.
Hey, that's my bike!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
omg HS was the next line - I'm the ultra modern version the American dreeeam . . . ? WHY DO I STILL REMEMBER THAT?
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
i was just thinking, why do i remember nearly everything about this dumb movie?
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
i think that was the next line!
the lesson i learned from this movie is you can say anything you want to a girl and she'll forgive you if a relative of yours dies.
― omar little, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
Have a 'tude, wiener dude.
― omar little, Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:39 PM (57 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that is the one thing i still think is sort of interesting about this movie, like ben stiller directed it and created this over-the-top asshole ethan hawke character and cast himself as the non-asshole and then had the girl get with the asshole at the end in a genuinely happy-ending way...i don't know what that's about really, but it *makes me think* for some reason.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
I like to hope he stopped being an asshole after that? Like when he shows back at her place after his dad died and says he has some kind of revelation or whatever.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't seen it in a long time though so I might feel differently if I watched it now.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Really wish Leilana or whatever Winona Ryder's character's called had come home from an awesome date with Stiller and found Steve Zahn curled up with a distracted, scowling Hawke.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
I must have been 20 when I saw this piece of crap at an empty cinema and when the lights came up all the other people there were 12 year old girls and one of them looked at me trying to sneak out unnoticed and her and her friends laughed and sneered at my corderoys and messy hair and my generation.
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 06:38 (5 years ago)
a+
― it's smdh time in America (will), Sunday, 12 February 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
whispers *I still kinda like this movie*
and I will never not lol at Winona's bra-less, doily-dress boobs looking like puppies under a blanket as she storms out of the screening.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 February 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that outfit was a disaster.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
that dress was like my nanna's good Christmas tablecloth
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 February 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago) link
Vintage Stiller Interview uploaded in advance of this weekend's MFAH screenings.
Didn't know they only did 10 days in Houston; explains why there are so few recognizable locales in comparison to, say, Rushmore.
― Hare Kinsey (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 May 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
lol the revelation that the same guy produced The Big Chill, Reality Bites and Garden State is so perfect
― some dude, Saturday, 26 May 2012 12:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lms359ckRN1qdjufzo1_500.gifhttp://4.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kte5z8bzUh1qz7lxdo1_500.gif
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
hee hee
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
after surprisingly being blown away by a friend singing Lisa Loeb "Stay" at a karaoke bar in the village last night, i have decided that i have no critical distance from this movie and possibly none re: the year 1994 either.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:43 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, February 12, 2012 5:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
All right, ladies, y'all are straight. We get it.
― pplains, Wednesday, 4 July 2012 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
blanket puppies
― Black_vegeta (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Doily Dolls.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
what a post
I might sneer at corduroys and messy hair too tbh
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 October 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link